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Delineating Social Phobia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. Solyom ,
B. Ledwidge  and
C. Solyom
L. Solyom*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Shaughnessy Hospital, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H3N1, Canada
B. Ledwidge
Affiliation:
Riverview Hospital, 500 Lougheed Highway, Port Coquitlam, BC, V3C1J0, Canada
C. Solyom
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Shaughnessy Hospital, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H3N1, Canada
*
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The natural history-including psychiatric symptoms, precipitating factors, onset and course of illness, and personality characteristics-of 47 social phobics, 80 agoraphobics, and 72 simple phobics was examined. The social phobia group differed from the agoraphobia group by having a lower mean age, fewer females and married members, and a higher educational and occupational status. They were less fearful generally, less obsessive, and less likely to follow a fluctuating or phasic course. There was overlap between the two groups with regard to main phobias, and they were similar with regard to adjacent symptomatology. Both the social and agoraphobia groups differed in similar and significant ways from simple phobics.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 464 - 470
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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